Saturday, March 7, 2009

HAPPY BORN DAY TO ME!!!

3/7/early 1980's,(and no this Gyrl is not ashamed of her age, but this blog is semi-anonymous...can't be puttin' all my gov'ment out there you know!?!) 6:17 am to be exact, a GARGANTUAN moment in herstory!!!

THIS DAY IN HERSTORY

1876Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.RING RING - Shoulda Known the Telephone was a Pisces...we DO have a Gift of Gab ;)

1901 - It was announced that blacks had been found enslaved in parts of South Carolina. (not so awesome)1904 - The Japanese bombed the Russian town of Vladivostok.

1904 - In Springfield, OH, a mob broke into a jail and shot a black man accused of murder. (not so awesome)

1906 - Finland granted women the right to vote. AWESOME - A Domino Effect1908 - Cincinnati's mayor, Mark Breith announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."

1911 - Willis Farnworth patented the coin-operated locker.

1911 - In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico. (???)

1918 - Finland signed an alliance treaty with Germany.

1925 - The Soviet Red Army occupied Outer Mongolia.

1927 - A Texas law that banned Negroes from voting was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

1933 - CBS radio debuted "Marie The Little French Princess." It was the first daytime radio serial. REALLY??? THE REST IS HISTORY.

1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented.Ode to Capitalism wrapped in baby's swaddle, oh those long evening after holiday dinners...

1935 - Malcolm Campbell set an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.

1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.

1942 - Japanese troops landed on New Guinea.

1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany.

1947 - John L. Lewis declared that only a totalitarian regime could prevent strikes.NONSENSE!BLEHHHHHHH1951 - U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launched Operation Ripper against the Chinese.

1954 - Russia appeared for the first time in ice-hockey competition. Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to win the world ice-hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden.

1955 - "Peter Pan" was presented as a television special for the first time.

1955 - Baseball commissioner Ford Frick said that he was in favor of legalizing the spitball. When was it ILLEGAL?

1955 - Phyllis Diller made her debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, CA.WHAT AN ANCIENT BALLSY DAME! DEFINITELY AWESOME.

1959 - Melvin C. Garlow became the first pilot to fly over a million miles in jet airplanes. AWESOME

1965 - State troopers and a sheriff's posse broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL. THANK-YOU CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS.TRULY.

1968 - The Battle of Saigon came to an end.

1971 - A thousand U.S. planes bombed Cambodia and Laos. EWWWWW!!! NOT AWESOME.

1975 - The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-thirds. JUNK TALK! SO AWESOME

2002 - A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.Could be AWESOME if You are the Geriatric Golddiggin' Type...

2003 - Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data from Sunnvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds. The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800 miles.TIME TRAVEL - FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!

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